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...himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike. Finally it came, and crossing the frontier at the head of an army composed of Mohammedan tribesmen and Jugo-Slavian soldiers he defeated Fan Noli and his hastily gathered army, and entered Tirana, the capital as prime minister...
...shot in the dusk is scarcely news at Tirana-that little, vile, ill-favored capital. But last week the bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear...
...Scutari the Archbishop of Albania, Monsignor Mjeda, declared last week, ex cathedra: "The recent Italo-Albanian treaty of Tirana (TIME, Dec. 13) is an outrage, and reduces Albania's independence to nullity...
...printed flat denials of their expose by officials of the British Foreign Office, side by side with the expose itself. The question of real significance is not whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...
...This," declared II Duce, "is an expression of the new fraternal relations resulting from the [Italo-Albanian] Treaty of Tirana (TIME...